I'm making the switch.

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Originally Posted by ImaNihilist

Yeah. All the notebooks in the hp business line-up start with "nx", save for the little one which is "nc" I think. They directly compete with the ThinkPads.

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hummm

And here I was thinking that HP products are crap besides their printers.

Hell yeah, freebsd is supposed work perfectly on the T43 http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de.../ibm/index.php

My laptop is up at $1220. Another day left to go on it. That is sort of good, although I did spend a good bit on that damned apple care (which sucks more than apple hardware!). I am just hoping they make a Pentium M based mac mini (maybe even with a sata 3.5" disk too, so a slightly large formfactor), and that the osx86 hacks keep rolling in.

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Originally Posted by pudad

I don't like the dock so much as I like the apps and expose; lets also not forget spotlight. I tend to turn off as many of the pointless visual effects as I can, unless they have some useful function in which case it wouldn't be a _pointless_ effect. The integration of addressbook, mail, ical, isync, and bluetooth is just so awesome. I also like safari and shiira a lot. One thing I hate about using windows is that no one as written a web browser using khtml: which I have had really good luck with (fast, and does well with css stuff among other things). In general it give me a great clean user interface, good apps, minimal bloat and bugs, and a unix-like system. I can't say I get that on any other platform, and for me they are all essentials for a general purpose workstation. I also forgot all the developer oriented stuff that comes with it too, which is a must for me.

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I have to admit that expose is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I miss it, but the some of the other features of xp just made me go back. Also, winXP can do some of the expose things anyways. Win+D is the F11 one. The F9 thing that arranges all windows is the one I wish XP could do. The last one that arranges all windows of the same type is idiotic anyways. Spotlight never really seemed to work for me though. Also, whatever the thing with the sensitive corners is called, that must have been the dumbest idea any OS designer has ever had.
Bluetooth on the mac was good because it was so easy to set up. My MSI usb bluetooth stick took me quite a while to setup with WinXP SP2, but once I had it going, it was just fine.

OSX certainly has a smaller initial investment. However, I have found that when I'm at my maximum productivity on both OSs, Windows is just faster for me.

tbh I've never used Linux/other NIX for anything but playing around... If I could get the damn tablet features of my IBM to work in Ubuntu, I would already have it running on there.

heh, I almost refuse to use tablets on principal. I can see how using osx on a typical mac can suck, the hardware is just not as fast unless you want to pay a lot.



The sensitive corner thing is useful if you get used to it. I only use one corner to activate the screensaver sometimes.

Spotlight is really like, something you gotta get used to. I don't use it as much as when I used to be more diehard about the mac since I can't use it on any of the other client platforms that offer few modern user interface features. To me, osx is the only thing that really the only different and more modern user interface. Everything else is just recycling the ui concepts from windows 95 essentially (xp, kde, gnome). Just to be fair, let me name one other gui that offers a fundamentally different ui: fluxbox, with the concept of tabing everything. Now, if I could have my fluxbox tabs along with my expose and spotlight, I'd be in heaven.

Wait, no. They brought the x32 back! Sweet. Tough decision, X32 vs T43.

Looks like they are brining the x32 in on-demand. Also, the price is a bit higher since they upgraded the specs (256 to 512, 30 to 40, 1.6 to 1.8). I love that it doesn't include the optical drive, and I always wished they made a small powerbook w/o optical drive. Wish apple would make a 10" laptop w/o optical drive.